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This is the nature of things.

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They switched us at the last minute.

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Not a good way to start. I
think it’s quite appropriate.

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We all know that the life
support systems of the planet

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are under incredible stress. The
global economy is no better.

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How do we get out of this mess? We can
stay the course and cross our fingers

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or we can forge a new path.

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My daughter Sarika and I are in search of ideas,
innovation, and those passionate individuals

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who can inspire future generations. Nice, it
really makes me feel good to see that, doesn’t it?

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Yeah. Holy, there is a lot.

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Our itinerary, a road trip through Europe.

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I think the scariest thing

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umm… about my generation is not
that we are apathetic but it’s just

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that we’ve accepted how things are. Umm…
for a lot of us we’ve grown up in cities,

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so we don’t have that connection with the natural
world that say my dad had when he was growing up.

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Sarika, my youngest daughter
is always asking me,

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dad, are there any solutions? We know,
we’re having an environmental crisis.

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But what can we do about it?
This crisis we face

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is a huge opportunity, the opportunity
to say, let’s look at what’s possible

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for a sustainable future.

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Germany is the third largest industrialized nation
in the world and they’re going towards a future

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where all of their electricity comes from
renewable energy. Well, if Germany can do it,

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what is the excuse for Canada or
the United States not to do it?

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Hello. Hello. Nice to meet you. Hi, I’m
Sarika. I’m Arnold. Nice to meet you.

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When you go to a city like Berlin, of course,
there is so many historical places to see.

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Oh, what a nice boat. And there are rivers running all the way
through Berlin and a great way to see the sites is by boat.

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Yeah, where are your solar pads?
On the roof.

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And we found a man Arnold, who’s got a whole
fleet of solar powered boats. That’s great.

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You can feel the heat. Touch it.
You can feel it.

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It doesn’t get any simpler than that.
So is this the whole driving force?

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So, you see, it’s so simple. That’s it?
That’s always silence.

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That’s all. Are you sure, it’s on?

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Arnold took us down the River Spree and it was obvious
that he really has got it about renewable energy

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because he wasn’t just bragging about
his boat. This is the energy forum

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and with (inaudible).

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He just loves the whole concept of renewable energy.
You see uh… this is the new central station

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and on the central station

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uh… 8,777 photovoltaic cells.

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And now you see the right dock,
you see the solar panels

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just between the towers. Yes. Yes.

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Oh, yeah. If there is a symbol
for a revitalized Germany,

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it’s the renovated parliament
building, the Reichstag.

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It’s bright, modern, very impressive but
underlying it is a complete energy system

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that heats it in the winter,
cools it in the summer

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that gives all of its electricity through
renewable energy. So it’s a spectacular dome.

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And when was it completed?

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Uh… in 99. In 99. Hermann Scheer is my big
hero. He is the father of solar energy.

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He is a member of parliament, so he’s a politician.
He’s trained, he has a PhD in economics

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and he has been driving renewable
energy then into the grid of Germany

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and he’s showing it can be
done without compromising

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your industrial competitiveness.
The whole Reichstag building,

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it is fueled with vegetable oil. It
was my proposal to do that. Really?

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The argument against this is unbelievable.

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Uh… the main argument was
finally, it could not be,

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it could not uh… become implemented

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because uh… around the Reichstag
there’s not enough place

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for the plantation of the vegetable of the,

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of the rape seed. In the 90s,

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Scheer fought for a law that subsidizes
producers of renewable energy.

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The law has led to thriving industries
around wind and solar power.

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There is not anymore
(inaudible) logical barrier.

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There is not anymore an economic barrier. It is only uh…,
there are only mental barriers and political barriers.

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The genuine meaning of say, experience here

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is to show it is possible. Since 2000,

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we have annually more than 3,000
mega Watt new installations.

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How many coal plants would that be
if you had to build coal plants?

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Uh… this would uh… replace uh…
12 large coal power plants

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or 12 nuclear power plants.

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So at present, in terms of jobs,
is the renewable energy sector

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becoming a significant part
of… of Germany’s industry?

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It had became the most successful

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industrial job creation program we
have since the last 30 or 40 years.

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It’s an opportunity not an impossibility.
Yeah, exactly, yeah. That’s right.

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And so it’s a… As you say it,
the mindset that’s blocking us

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accepting the challenge. Yeah, yeah.

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Germany was really neat. I got
to go to visit Studio 7.5.

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This was a design studio and I don’t
know anything about design or art.

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So this is the famous Mirra chair.

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The chair that I went to see was called the Mirra
chair. Can I try it out? Well, you have to.

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Okay. And I couldn’t believe it, when he told me that he sold over
a million of this type of chair. That’s an incredible amount.

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I sell like a thousand a day.
A thousand a day?

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Yes. So that’s pretty good as chairs
go, is it? No reason to complain.

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But umm… again it has no really weak points.
You can come from an economic standpoint,

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it’s still, I think the best chair, you can
sit on. You can come from the green aspect,

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it’s damn beautiful. Oh.

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Do you feel that? Yeah, I felt that.
The thing I loved about them was that,

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their first and foremost idea is
that something has to be functional.

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Whereas in North America, they were saying,
everybody asks, is this green, is this green,

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is this eco-friendly? So I really
liked that they were saying, come on,

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let’s take it a step beyond green. Let’s have a
great design, great function, great comfort,

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but of course, it’s gonna be green as well.

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So how much of this chair
is actually recyclable?

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Uh… 97% is recyclable. 97%? 97%.

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So what does that mean exactly? So
there’s no uh… PVC, no chrome, no uh…

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whatever, you don’t want to have in your chair, in this
chair. So no harmful substances at all? No, not at all.

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Now that I know that there
are solutions out there,

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not only are there are solutions but there are
people who are actively doing something about it.

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I think that has kind of given me a lot
more hope than I had when I came into this.

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I’ve spent a lot of time in my life yelling

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and screaming about this is bad,
this is got to be stopped and so on.

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Uh… 98, no? Okay, thank God. So I felt that it’s
really important to start saying to people, look,

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what is the future? If we really learn
to live in balance with the earth

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and harmony with nature, what does that
mean? And as far as I’m concerned,

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I think most people if they
look ahead to that future,

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I think they’ll say, whoa,
that’s the way I want to live.

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Thank you is Dank je. But if you
want to say thanks a lot, you say…

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Hartelijk bedankt. No. Mandetak is thanks very
much and Hartelijk bedankt is thank you so much.

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Well, I thought Mandetak was please.
What do they say, please?

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Umm… something weird. We’re just driving
through Northern Jutland in Denmark

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and it’s really beautiful,
it’s very idyllic and calm.

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You know, lots of windmills coming up here. And
on the countryside, what you see every where

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are windmills.

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Preben Maegaard was a very interesting guy.
He is the same age as my dad.

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Now this is Preben. Hey. Preben is
like the guru of renewable energy

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because he knows everything about wind and solar and
geothermal and he was really excited to share that with us.

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So where are we? What’s all these
uh… We are in Holstein. This is at

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uh… northwestern corner of Jutland and

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umm… here we have been doing some
primary work with wind power.

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We had this severe oil crisis in
1974 and there were no supplies

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and but the choice going the atomic
energy way or going renewable energy.

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Can we go and have a look at the inside.
Yeah, yeah.

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When the Arab oil embargo
was started in 1973,

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Denmark realized that most of their energy was
important and that made them very, very vulnerable.

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So the choice was, do we develop something like
nuclear energy or do we try to find a new option

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in renewable energy.

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All right, so who is
going first, you or me?

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Okay, then who goes what, first.
Whatever you want.

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Okay, I’ll go first. I never thought
I’d be going inside of a windmill.

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Gradually little groups sprang up to
start making windmills on their own

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and then the government began to encourage this and
it became the direction that Denmark has gone.

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And there is another one
right above your head.

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Another what? Watch out. Uh… Great view.

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Let’s see. Oh, yeah. Yeah. We are so high.
Look at those cars.

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Yeah. Wow, so this is it, hey.

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This is the guts of it. So this is the
turbine that makes the electricity.

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Denmark depended for its energy, 98%
of their energy came from abroad

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and what motivated them that look for alternatives
had nothing to do really with the environment.

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It had to do with security. It’s not
as big as I thought it would be.

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If you look at the plate, you’ll see, it’s big. We
don’t have to talk about environmental issues here.

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It has to do with economics. It has
to do with the quality of life.

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Those are all issues that are very much
underlying the way Europe has gone

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and that we’re… we’re not dealing with it that
way yet. You hear that? Hear that? Well, listen.

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[sil.]

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Oh, yeah.

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There. Hear. Hear that? I don’t
know what that is. I don’t know.

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What’s amazing is that wind
with those skinny blades

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can keep it turning. Yeah.

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Probably the most dependable area for
steady wind is anything over the ocean.

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And of course, Denmark is this like
Peninsula that’s got water all around it.

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So it’s not a surprise that a lot
of the turbines are being built

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right at the edge of the country. Wow.

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Yeah, I know. His kite is so fast.
Having to hold on to it,

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that must be really hard that pressure.
Oh yeah. Have you ever been…

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Have you ever been windsurfing before? No. You know mom
did. That is so much upper body strength. She windsurfed?

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She beat me at arm wrestling and I
never arm wrestled again. What? Yeah.

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You were trying. Oh, that’s embarrassing.
You need to hit the gym.

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It was humiliating.

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[sil.]

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Denmark leads the world in the proportion
of energy that comes from wind

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and it’s led to a tremendous business. They
are exporting windmills all over the world.

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This tiny country is three million people.
So do you think they’re ugly?

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I don’t think so especially when you think of the…
the alternative is smoke stags for burning plants.

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Yeah. But I think you learn how,
learn to think things are beautiful.

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Yeah, they’re really going too.

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But Denmark doesn’t use just wind power.

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All through the country side, you see there
are other sources of renewable energy.

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Yens Kurk(ph) is a third generation farmer.

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He’s got an amazing integrated farm.

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He grows grain on his land and he also
raises pigs that he feeds with the grain

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that he grows. Those
pigs make a lot of waste

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which is thrown into a huge tank
and that is used in a process

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that liberates methane.

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Wow, it’s so warm in here.
Yeah. So what is this?

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This is a power unit where we
are burning the methane gas

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and we are producing the
electricity and heat.

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Now the heat, is it just exhaust?
We are collecting the hot water,

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we are catching it and using it for heating
the buildings, for heating the farm.

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For running the biogas process also. So
with the biogas plant and the wind turbine,

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what Yens Kurk(ph) does is typical of
Denmark, where almost 20% of the energy

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comes from small decentralized
and diverse systems.

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So that one is yours? That one is mine, yeah.
How long have you had that up? Since 2000.

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That makes eight years now.
Wow. Wow, is it paid up?

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Yeah. It paid itself back after five years.

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Wow. That’s incredible. Yeah. And how
does that compare to the generator

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and the pig farm?

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Umm… that electricity produced by the biogas plant and the
electricity produced by the windmill is about the same,

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about two million kilowatt per year.

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That’s a really small windmill.

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The one we went up, was that
bigger than that? Probably.

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Uh… I think so. Look at this one. It really
looks like the kind you see in Holland

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except, usually, they are covered with cloth or something.
Yeah. This is what I think of when I think of a windmill.

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Yes. Like a typical old craft windmill.

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Well, this is very different than the
windmill we climbed yesterday. Wow.

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[music]

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So three, you see this? This is the main wheel
then, right, it’s being driven by the windmill.

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Yeah. Then that’s driving wheels there.

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And that’s also driving this one down here.

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Yeah, look at that. Wow. You see
that, that one is broken up.

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Yeah. It’s a calendar shot three.

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Well, I’m getting so old,
Sarika, I can’t see.

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You got glasses. Well,
Sarika, , she’s a very,

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very sensitive person and I think
the thing that I felt worst about

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when she was still a pre-teen was

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uh… my wife and I came home one day and
said, Sarika there is this thing going on.

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It’s a perfect thing for you and
your friends to get involved in.

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And they said, well, Sarika, you better do something
about it. And I said, why would I do anything?

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It doesn’t matter what I do. And I think
that they were so upset with my reaction

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umm… that they realized wow, we
really have to watch out for

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what we teach our kids and what we are saying
at home. To think that this young child

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who is always there but quiet was listening
to Tara and me just railing against

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the environmental destruction and all of the
things that we thought should be stopped

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and what it percolated into her
mind was, it was too late.

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What? And I think that, that’s
really in many ways shaped

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the way that I’ve taken the
environmental issue now.

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Oh, you got a big one. Yeah, huge.
Well done.

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Well, he is an amazing father and
I know that this is something

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that he feels very guilty about, is that he
doesn’t spend enough time with his children.

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And I think that coming here and
realizing what he does is just kind of

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given me another a perspective of it.

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Oh, wow, we’ll try another one and see.
But that left the daylight.

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So the good thing is to
get out fishing. Yeah.

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[music]

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But I wonder, I keep thinking about a cities and
if that kind of system is possible in a city.

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Well, I mean I think that’s why we’re going to Copenhagen,
isn’t it, because now you’re talking major city.

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But it’s more than just about windmills,

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I think Copenhagen is a place where bicycles are
planned into that, that city. That’s what I heard

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and I’ve also heard that it’s the happiest city.
Oh, really? Yeah, people are most happy there.

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You mean, even a grouch like me might start
smiling and… We’ll… we’ll find out. Okay.

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[music]

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[music]

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But you know, if you’re
in Vancouver, Toronto,

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the number of bikes to cars,

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probably one bike for every ten cars. Yeah.

00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:14.999
And here it seems to be the opposite. It’s
just the norm. Yeah. A skirt and stilettos.

00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:19.999
Wow. If I wore these outfits
on my bike in Vancouver,

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oh, man, people would think, I was nuts.

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That’s because your mini skirts are so short.
Dad, when have you seen me in a mini skirt?

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The biggest thing about Copenhagen
is the biking population.

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Close to 40% of the population
bikes to work or to school.

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It looks very different than
Vancouver which is where I grew up

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and we think there’s a lot of bikers there but… Holy cow, you
step outside your hotel in Copenhagen and you can get run over

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by a slew of bikers. You’re
gonna give me a ride?

00:21:55.000 --> 00:21:59.999
Good idea. Are you in?

00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:04.999
Oh, I’ve got the break tight, sorry.

00:22:05.000 --> 00:22:09.999
Oh, that… that is a bit heavy.
Okay. What is your…

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Daddy, we are going left.

00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:19.999
Look, they are laughing at us. All right,
we’re going, we’re going, we’re going.

00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:24.999
Mikael Colville-Andersen is half Canadian,
half Danish and he’s crazy about bikes.

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He loves the bike culture.
He’s nuts about them

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and all he wants to do is talk about
bikes and spread the word to the world.

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[music]

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You know, all over the world
before the Second World War,

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everybody wrote their bikes. Right. Then uh… you
know the dawn of the automobile age in the 50s

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killed all the bike culture umm…, you
know, every where in the western world.

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Umm… so Copenhagen in the mid-60s
was polluted and congested.

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People were buying more cars and it
just took some visionary urban planners

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and politicians to say, hey, we want to
stop this. You know, reclaim the streets.

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Copenhagen has a network
of almost 400 kilometers

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of bike lanes stretching across the city.

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You know, I’m a firm believer in, you
know, if you build, they will come. Yeah.

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And if you know, we all have a personal responsibility, but, you know, the vast
majority of the population are not environmentalist. They are just living their lives.

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Yeah. And if we make it possible for them to,
you know, sort their garbage or to ride a bike

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to work safely everyday.
If we think of Mikael,

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I mean Mikael is a bike freak. He loves the
fact that Copenhagen is so bike friendly.

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So is there a special place on the train to put
the bike? Yeah, we usually suit at the back.

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Not because, it’s saving the environment,
producing less greenhouse gases

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but because it’s a better way of… of living.
He has fun, it’s a great way to travel.

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Uh… you have less hassle with traffic.
Over and over again

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that’s what we encountered that the environmental
component is really a minor part of

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what motivates people. I think
he’s saying, you can catch up.

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I think the day in Copenhagen when
we were cycling all around the city,

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I’ve never seen my dad so happy and
relaxed and it was so pleasant.

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At home, he’s always stressed out because people
are pulling him at a million different ways

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but when we’ve been traveling,
he’s been really at ease.

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Wow, look at all the people. I
guess everybody expects a bigger…

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Yes, very typically in Danish. You know, we don’t, we don’t have the big
monuments. You know, we have hands fishing and the mermaid which is life size.

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It really sums up the whole spirit of the city,
I would say. Laid back cool and life size, so.

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But if we’re gonna build monuments,
umm… I like that much more.

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We have the monuments out on the, on
the harbor, there’s 27 wind turbines.

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You want to be a real tourist, you
take a picture. Yeah, of course.

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This is really cheesy. I know.

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[music]

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Now that we’re leaving, what do you think?
What do you make of our Danish experience?

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Once you see it in action, it is obvious.

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So it’s really inspiring and I
wasn’t anticipating being like this.

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And everybody is just doing it because it’s easy.
Anyway, maybe at the end of this whole trip,

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we can come up with a list of, you
know, five or ten concrete things

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that young people can start looking at
as things they can do, demanding things.

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So you really want to focus on
young people. I… It’s your world.

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We got to keep young people really uh… you
know kind of up there demanding things.

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I think, and what makes it really
powerful is that there are answers.

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It’s not like we’re saying, something has
got to be done. You know, it’s like…

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[music]

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I know, it’s hard but try to look pretty.

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Sarika, always spoiling the shot.
That’s so mean,

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then take it without me in it.

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The whole process of modern
agriculture is very,

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very expensive in terms of energy. Right
now, modern agriculture takes something like

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eight to ten calories of oil to grow food

00:27:05.000 --> 00:27:09.999
that will give you one calorie in the food.
Whereas, if you do it the traditional way,

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you put one calorie of,
basically muscle. Yeah.

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And you let the sun feed the plant and you
get six to eight calories of food back.

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There is no question, we’ve got to go back to that way of
doing it, because you can’t convert oil into food that way.

00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:29.999
At his family chateau in the Loire Valley,

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Nicolas Joly makes wine according
to the principle of biodynamics.

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There was a big fight in 1214.

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He’s inspired by the monks who originally cultivated
this vineyard, more than one thousand years ago.

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Joly rejects the modern
practice of monoculture,

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the growing of just one type of crop.

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It makes sense for a farmer to think,
well, we have the perfect wine.

00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:04.999
So let’s just go lots of the same kind.

00:28:05.000 --> 00:28:09.999
Yes, it does but nature is not like this.

00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:14.999
Nature doesn’t like to do the same.
Nature likes to rest. Hello. Hello.

00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:19.999
I don’t think I’ve ever
been this close to a bull

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in the same field as I am now.

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What I understand is philosophically, they take an
animal or a plant and regard it as a living organism

00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:34.999
and you can’t simply isolate that
organism from its surroundings

00:28:35.000 --> 00:28:39.999
and how it lives and what it eats?

00:28:40.000 --> 00:28:44.999
So why do you have these cows? I need compost, I
need number one race of a cow which belongs here.

00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:49.999
That’s very different from organic
farming which just seems to me is just,

00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:54.999
we’ve got to get off the dependence
on chemicals. So what is this?

00:28:55.000 --> 00:28:59.999
Well, this is water mixed with laceration

00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:04.999
of four days of metal.
Biodynamic agriculture

00:29:05.000 --> 00:29:09.999
is really a look back to more traditional ways.
But one that sees humans not being in charge

00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:14.999
and controlling everything but being
a part of a bigger ecosystem.

00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:19.999
Where did you get this recipe?
Oh, it’s no recipe.

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Metal is really a friend of nature.

00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:29.999
Okay. Oh, I can smell that. Man.

00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:34.999
When your farming is well done,
you are having your grape,

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all the process, (inaudible) of the
year, climate, how dry, when sit outs,

00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:44.999
and how hot etc. And, and this,

00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:49.999
this information we’ll carry
off fermentation. Cheers.

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[non-English narration]

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[music]

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Sarika and I are looking to see
what the future is for energy

00:30:05.000 --> 00:30:09.999
because of the oil crisis now, it’s, people
are beginning to reexamine everything

00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:14.999
and I think we’re seeing the bigger picture

00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:19.999
and that’s the excitement
of biodynamics to me.

00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:24.999
Yes and… and you could go further

00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:29.999
and say that for the second millennium,
the song was big is beautiful.

00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:34.999
The next song now is small is beautiful.

00:30:35.000 --> 00:30:39.999
There is a sense of what we call modernity
that whatever is newer is better.

00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:44.999
And we’ve discarded a lot of things
as kind of superstitious, anecdotal.

00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:49.999
Uh… we devalue the kind of knowledge
that people have in the past.

00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:54.999
I think that the ancient way of… of doing things
was much… much more careful and conservative

00:30:55.000 --> 00:30:59.999
and what we are finding now is holy cow,

00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:04.999
they’re right.

00:31:05.000 --> 00:31:09.999
[music]

00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:14.999
Mum was pulling out these, I don’t know, what
they are, articles that you used to write

00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:19.999
and she showed me this one. You
remember this? That’s you.

00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:24.999
Oh, wow. I don’t know when it was.

00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:29.999
That’s 1989 when we did.
It’s a matter of survival.

00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:34.999
That was the big show, that for me…

00:31:35.000 --> 00:31:39.999
Yeah, I, I remember the guy that designed
this thing. I thought it was pretty heavy.

00:31:40.000 --> 00:31:44.999
Okay. Well, look at your expression. Yeah. Let’s stop this
madness. We’re killing our environment and our children’s future.

00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:49.999
Here are the facts, understand the problems
and find out how we can stop this madness

00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:54.999
before it’s too late. Well…
And your expression, gee,

00:31:55.000 --> 00:31:59.999
so that was you when I was six and that’s
pretty scary to grow up like that.

00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:04.999
And I think that’s probably around the time when you
said, you heard me say, well, what’s the point?

00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:09.999
Yeah. And then you probably did have
to shift how you thought about things.

00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:14.999
Well, when you said, why should I do anything,
it’s too late, I, I listened to you and mum.

00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:19.999
I realized that you know, you guys listen.

00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:24.999
You’re always there and here we are yelling
and, you know, oh, so and so politician

00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:29.999
and getting mad and kind of venting and
here you are soaking it up and feeling, oh,

00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:34.999
if mum and dad can feel frustrated,
what’s the hope? And that’s why we said,

00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:39.999
look, we can’t talk like that in front of
the kids. What freaks me out is sometimes

00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:44.999
because there is so much bad news, I
kind of just let it roll off my back.

00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:49.999
Well, you have to. You can’t… You
can’t uh… you can’t take it all in,

00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:54.999
it’s, it’s just too overwhelming.

00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:59.999
You know, when you get to be our age like
Preben and me, it’s not about whether

00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:04.999
or not the world is gonna change for us,
it’s about our children and grandchildren.

00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:10.000
You know, you think of me Dory and
Tom and it’s pretty terrifying.

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[music]

00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:34.999
So how do you say hello in Spanish?
Hola. Hola.

00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:39.999
Yeah, yeah. Hola.

00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:45.000
[music]

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[music]

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Cheers.

00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:09.999
Cheers. So our last country is Spain.

00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:14.999
I’d always thought of Spain as
an emerging economic power.

00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:19.999
And yet to me the astonishing thing
is that in terms of transportation,

00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:24.999
in terms of energy, Spain
is so far ahead of Canada.

00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:29.999
[sil.]

00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:34.999
This is an amazing train station.

00:34:35.000 --> 00:34:39.999
Yeah. Look at the jungle.

00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:44.999
Yeah. Here we are at the Atocha
railway station in Madrid

00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:49.999
and we’re here really to look at the wanted
high speed train system they’ve got.

00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:54.999
Their trains apparently hit up to 300
kilometers an hour, but the amazing thing is,

00:34:55.000 --> 00:34:59.999
they’ve got a network of these trains that are
now going to connect and be available to,

00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:04.999
up to 90% of the population. This is
so much more relaxed than in airport.

00:35:05.000 --> 00:35:09.999
Remember in the airport, we
got to go through security.

00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:14.999
And so you’ve got a train
system then that is

00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:19.999
uh… displacing their airlines.
I think in North America

00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:24.999
we’re committed to a lifestyle that
is very wasteful and very polluting.

00:35:25.000 --> 00:35:29.999
That mean, we don’t learn anything
and try to improve on things.

00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:34.999
Whereas in Europe, they’ve had
to do things in a different way.

00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:39.999
And you know, riding here on the,
the high speed trains for example,

00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:44.999
wow, what an experience.
What a great way to travel.

00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:49.999
[music]

00:35:50.000 --> 00:35:54.999
Dad woke up sick this morning. Last
night, he wasn’t feeling so good.

00:35:55.000 --> 00:35:59.999
He is in bed right now in his pajamas. So I’m
going to be traveling around today by myself.

00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:04.999
[sil.]

00:36:05.000 --> 00:36:09.999
So we’re heading to Segovia
right now from Madrid.

00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:14.999
This is really neat because we’re in a rapid train and
umm… this is only gonna be about a 35 minute right.

00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:23.000
[music]

00:36:35.000 --> 00:36:39.999
While the main lure of Segovia is that

00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:44.999
it has a huge aqueduct that
runs throughout the city.

00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:49.999
It’s been preserved, this entire
time and it’s in perfect condition.

00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:54.999
And it’s still… still standing.
It was really incredible.

00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:59.999
But it was really kind of a day to
take pictures and play a tourist.

00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:04.999
[sil.]

00:37:05.000 --> 00:37:09.999
It’s what I love about Europe, an incredible
history, while still looking to the future.

00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:18.000
[music]

00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:29.999
Boy, are we…

00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:34.999
So what do you think of the train?

00:37:35.000 --> 00:37:39.999
It’s fantastic. You know,
this is no clickity clack.

00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:44.999
There is no noise and there’s no kind of wobbling. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, that’s great. They are trying to perfect the system by,

00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:49.999
I think 2020 when uh… basically 90%

00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:54.999
of the population will be within a few
kilometers of a high speed train.

00:37:55.000 --> 00:37:59.999
Well, the environment was not the reason why
Spain decided to go for a high speed trains.

00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:04.999
So it’s kind of like a by-product bonus.

00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:09.999
It’s about quality of life. We’ve got
to focus on what is our life all about.

00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:14.999
Quality of life of our… Well, maybe that’s the end we
have to take. Do you think, it will work in Canada?

00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:19.999
I don’t know. But I’ll tell you,

00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:24.999
I’m gonna go home and I’m gonna be
bringing the, anxious to say Canada,

00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:29.999
what the heck are we wasting your time?
I hope you don’t lose that momentum.

00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:34.999
You know, I think it’s really
great that we came together

00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:39.999
because we can help each other out,
kind of continue along that same path.

00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:48.000
[music]

00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:04.999
I’ve read about the Abengoa experiment

00:39:05.000 --> 00:39:09.999
with heating water, with
an array of solar panels.

00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:14.999
I just wasn’t prepared for the
sight that, when we first stopped

00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:19.999
and had a look at it. Oh, look at
this, Sarika, look. That’s amazing.

00:39:20.000 --> 00:39:24.999
That’s incredible. I had no idea that
you’d be able to see it like that.

00:39:25.000 --> 00:39:29.999
I know, I know. It’s like a helo or something. But, I
mean, there is something almost religious about it,

00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:34.999
you know the way that light
is all coming up there. Yeah.

00:39:35.000 --> 00:39:39.999
Turn around, Sarika. Don’t make a face.

00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:44.999
That wasn’t, you’re making the face. Come
on. Great. We all know if you’d focus

00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:49.999
a magnifying glass on a piece of
paper, you can light that paper.

00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:54.999
That’s the heat from the sun being concentrated. At
a Abengoa, what they do is use an array of mirrors

00:39:55.000 --> 00:39:59.999
over 600 mirrors and super heat that water

00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:04.999
which is then used as steam to drive
turbines and generate electricity.

00:40:05.000 --> 00:40:09.999
I mean, in this plant, we
have a power of 150 meters

00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:14.999
and we have 624 heliostat. That
entire thing is one heliostat.

00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:19.999
These heliostats are setup to mimic
what in my mind are sunflowers

00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:24.999
and whenever the earth moves a little
bit, they move towards the sun

00:40:25.000 --> 00:40:29.999
and so there was something that was nice. It
was almost like bio mimicry. That is cool.

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Look at it now, Sarika. I can’t
even look at it. It’s so bright.

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Honestly, I can’t just look down there. How
many homes could that heat? With this power,

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you can supply to 11,000 people.

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Oh, my God. Holy. That’s amazing.
Look at that.

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Can you see the beam is going up from the
mirrors. Exactly, that’s unbelievable.

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And there’s so many more than
I thought there are. Holy.

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Sarika, that’s all free energy.

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All free. Now I’m gonna be walking around
saying, oh, it’s all wasted. Look at the sun.

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The sun is just so generous in the,

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in all of this energy, it rains down
on the land day after day after day.

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It’s free and we’re not so stupid that we
can’t figure out ways to exploit that sun.

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From the simplest ways of just heating
up water to what we saw in Seville,

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where you get this kind of
science fiction, you know,

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sending the sun and beams
up and boiling water.

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I mean the answers are all there.
We just have to change our minds

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and say, we want a sustainable society and
that’s got to be back to renewable energy.

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And I feel absolutely uplifted
that it’s all there. We can do it.

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It just means we have
to change our mindset.

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Look at all the windmills there.

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Holy cow.

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I don’t know that they make me feel good.

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I know, you keep looking for it. I’m finally realizing why it was
so important that I actually came here. You’re gonna go swimming?

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I usually draw my energy

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from people who are a little bit younger.
But the funny thing is, he’s 72

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and he still has that energy and sometimes I’m thinking, okay,
yeah, you know, this is, this is interesting, this is great.

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But he is so gung ho about it and he
still feels like something can be done

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and that is so remarkable. Of
course, it’s been wonderful

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to watch Sarika really beginning,
wondering whether there are solutions

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and now at the end of the, the three
weeks feeling really pumped like dad.

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We’re gonna go back and we’ve just got
to use this and… and do something.

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Oh, it feels so nice.

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I can’t believe that this
trip is finally over.

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But if we had to end it, I think this is the best
way to possibly end a trip on the ocean again.

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